Aug 12 Watch Online Crime a Cat-and-Mouse Game for Hackers, Security Companies Spencer Michels wraps up his cybersecurity series with a look at online crimes and the technology being used to stop them. Continue watching
Aug 11 In the Gulf, Questions Over Where to Put Oil Waste The Macondo oil well in the Gulf may be capped, but the containment and cleanup effort generated a huge amount of waste. First, there's 13 million gallons of liquid waste -- oil mixed with water -- that… Continue reading
Aug 11 Pew Report: U.S. Broadband Adoption Slows, but Blacks Gain Ground The Pew Internet & American Life Project released its Home Broadband 2010 Report Wednesday, revealing a dramatic slowing of broadband adoption by Americans this year, but showing notable growth in use by blacks. Among the findings were statistics… Continue reading
Aug 11 Wednesday: BP Crews Wait Out Storm; Pakistani President Defends Trip Crews in the Gulf of Mexico drilling the final feet of a relief well intended to permanently plug BP's oil well will have to wait two to three days as a tropical depression passes over the site. Retired… Continue reading
Aug 11 Watch Hayden: Hackers Force Internet Users to Learn Self-Defense Correspondent Spencer Michels continues his series on cybersecurity with a conversation with former CIA and National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden who says the openness of the Internet's design puts hackers at an advantage over people who want to defend… Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch What Happens to Debris From Gulf Oil Cleanup? Piles of plastic bags containing tar balls from Gulf Coast shorelines are packed up each day and millions of gallons oily water have been skimmed. But where is the debris from the Gulf oil disaster being taken? Tom Bearden reports. Continue watching
Aug 10 Spinal Fluid Test a New Tool for Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease By Jenny Marder Doctors may be able to reliably predict a person's chance of developing Alzheimer's disease from a simple analysis of their cerebral spinal fluid, according to a study released Monday. The study, published in the journal Archives of Neurology, analyzed… Continue reading
Aug 10 Black Hat and Defcon Founder Jeff Moss: What Is the ‘Hacker Mindset?’ By Spencer Michels More than 15,000 computer nerds - hackers, government officials, security company officials and who knows who else - spent a few days in Las Vegas recently for an unusual set of conventions. The subject on everyone's minds was cyber attacks… Continue reading
Aug 10 Watch Governments Battle to Stay Ahead of Threats on Internet, ‘The Great Leveler’ In the first in a series of reports about cybersecurity, correspondent Spencer Michels reports from Las Vegas on governmental and citizen-led efforts to stop online crime that could threaten critical infrastructure. Continue watching
Aug 09 Watch What Happened to Democrats’ Energy, Climate Change Legislation Plans? With the Senate at home for the summer, a clean-energy and climate-change bill appears to be all but dead. For a closer look at what pulled the plug on the legislation, Margaret Warner is joined by environmental writers Darren Samuelsohn… Continue watching